I hypothesize that one's technical abilities are inversely proportional to one's political abilities. And by political abilities I mean cunning enhancement of one's perceived value in such a manner to progress their position, salary, stock, etc. and in especially despicable instances, historically acclaimed for misattributed achievements.
Why would I have to burn something to make hydrogen? Can't I peddle a bicycle for a few hours and generate enough to drive to work? What about all the people peddling bicycles at the gym? Where's all that energy going?
Proclaiming that your things are nice doesn't change the fact that they are low-end. As adequate as a Golf may be, it is the cheapest model available. I was trying to cite prices that were comparable to what you would be purchasing back in the day.
For instance, $400 got you a high-end model color tv in 1965. Today I would not be calling anything with a CRT in it a high-end model.
Anyways I think the GP's point was that prices are actually falling and not going up. My dissenting point is that prices have gone up and down and stayed the same. Perhaps you and I are not in disagreement, besides the fact that even the cheapest car by today's standards would be better than a 1920's model T.
How much did a car cost in 1920? In 1924 a Model-T cost about $265 source
How much did a color TV with a remote cost in 1965? around $400 for a good one source
How much did a computer cost in 1984 or a VCR? in 1984 you could get a commodore 16 for about $100 source
How much did a DVD player cost in 1997? in 1999 it was just below $300 source
Today a nice car is around $30,000. A good tv about $1000. 2006's equivalent to 1984's commodore 16 I guess would be a couple hundred bucks. You can get an okay progressive scan dvd player for about $100 today.
The relative prices of things change dramatically over the years due to tons of economic and social variables. Inflation hides this fact a little bit.
what was the resolution on this image? the poor performance on the 1.6ghz pentium could be inefficient x86 code. I made a 3D texture mapped spinning cube that ran at 30fps on my old 100mhz 486dx4. The resolution of the image was 256x256x8bpp
Or if they would test the fans seperate from the heatsinks. Heatsinks don't make any noise. A good HSF review would be if they chose 3 different fans (noisy, quiet, silent) and tested each heatsink with each fan.
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Why does the modified human have to be stronger bigger and more structural protection. I would rather design one even more light weight and maximize on brain size and minimize on body size. Then we could get better power to weight ratio in cars and airplanes.
It'd be nice if our bodies didn't allow so much variance in size. We could design better more confortable controls and cockpits. Maybe the ideal body would be something like a giant slug covered in cognitive slime that can interface with our mechoskeletons. Even reproductive organs should involve some sort of external interface to be practical.
but the amount of stuff running in the backgrownd is growing exponentially
No it's not growing exponentially. Not everything that is growing is growing exponentially. Are the background processes themselves creating new background processes that will in turn create more background processes??? The amount of people using the word "exponentially" as hyperbole is growing exponentially!
Like seti or folding@home except instead of donating your spare cpu cycles for one particular task you'd be making them available for anyone to rent?
The price per hour per cpu could be based on demand and could be distributed to all the contributers. Imagine all the processing power out there not being used. Especially the gpus on people's video cards while they're not playing games.
MSSQL's SQL optimizer is *so* much better than Oracle's.....so long as your table statistics are current. Once a table gets to a size where updating the statistics takes longer than the suboptimal execution plan would've, you're screwed. You have to start working around your own schema, partitioning tables and breaking relationships etc.
That or write your queries the long way with force plan, forced joins and indexes. I've found some cases though where you can't reproduce the execution plan this way.
and might even be able to handle 1080i, although 1080p should be out of it's league...
1080i and 1080p are equivalent in terms of computing requirements. 1080i is half the frame size but double the frames. 1080p is double the frame size but half the frames. If anything 1080i becomes more compute intensive when you try to de-interlace it and reconstruct full res frames.
Think of CISC as a kind of compression with hints and other info. The translation is performed in less time than would take to send the full uncompressed instructions so eliminating it would actually slow performance.
Actually the main purpose for membership cards is to enable "in basket" analysis. Knowing what's being purchased is trivial, figuring out what's being purchased together requires a unique identifier to associate with the multiple items. Membership cards provide that for cash paying customers.
The reasoning behind any such default options is very simple and straight forward.
The user does not directly or immediatly benefit from enabling google to track their activity. You would never go look for the "track my activity" option and enable it. If google disabled this by default who would ever turn it on?
After all the statistics are of much less value if they are based on a sample of users who actually realize that providing google with these statistics is good for the software (and not too lazy to go manually enable the option).
A good client has tabs (Nobody wants a dozen chat windows).
I have to disagree. I prefer separate windows per convo. I wouldn't be suprised if no two people have the same ideal of what the perfect chat client would be. That's why I think the most important thing for a chat client is that it is extremely configurable. Miranda, is hands down the most configurable client and IMO the best.
Miranda is a very good program. Just about every aspect of the interface is configurable. I think that is very important in a chat client since it is almost always running and everybody has their own preferences.
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Girlfriends are to blame. For some reason they hate all your friends and you have to stop hanging out with them or you get no sex.
I hypothesize that one's technical abilities are inversely proportional to one's political abilities. And by political abilities I mean cunning enhancement of one's perceived value in such a manner to progress their position, salary, stock, etc. and in especially despicable instances, historically acclaimed for misattributed achievements.
Credit usually goes to the person who wants it the most. That tends to be someone other than the person who deserves it.
I think it's related to that phenomenon where the more smart someone thinks they are the less smart they actually are.
Why would I have to burn something to make hydrogen? Can't I peddle a bicycle for a few hours and generate enough to drive to work? What about all the people peddling bicycles at the gym? Where's all that energy going?
Proclaiming that your things are nice doesn't change the fact that they are low-end. As adequate as a Golf may be, it is the cheapest model available. I was trying to cite prices that were comparable to what you would be purchasing back in the day.
For instance, $400 got you a high-end model color tv in 1965. Today I would not be calling anything with a CRT in it a high-end model.
Anyways I think the GP's point was that prices are actually falling and not going up. My dissenting point is that prices have gone up and down and stayed the same. Perhaps you and I are not in disagreement, besides the fact that even the cheapest car by today's standards would be better than a 1920's model T.
How much did a car cost in 1920?
In 1924 a Model-T cost about $265
source
How much did a color TV with a remote cost in 1965?
around $400 for a good one
source
How much did a computer cost in 1984 or a VCR?
in 1984 you could get a commodore 16 for about $100
source
How much did a DVD player cost in 1997?
in 1999 it was just below $300
source
Today a nice car is around $30,000. A good tv about $1000. 2006's equivalent to 1984's commodore 16 I guess would be a couple hundred bucks. You can get an okay progressive scan dvd player for about $100 today.
The relative prices of things change dramatically over the years due to tons of economic and social variables. Inflation hides this fact a little bit.
what was the resolution on this image? the poor performance on the 1.6ghz pentium could be inefficient x86 code. I made a 3D texture mapped spinning cube that ran at 30fps on my old 100mhz 486dx4. The resolution of the image was 256x256x8bpp
could open graphics run on it?
there's a wiki for great slashdot comments
interesting how little has been submitted out of billions and billions of comments
Or if they would test the fans seperate from the heatsinks. Heatsinks don't make any noise. A good HSF review would be if they chose 3 different fans (noisy, quiet, silent) and tested each heatsink with each fan.
Why does the modified human have to be stronger bigger and more structural protection. I would rather design one even more light weight and maximize on brain size and minimize on body size. Then we could get better power to weight ratio in cars and airplanes.
It'd be nice if our bodies didn't allow so much variance in size. We could design better more confortable controls and cockpits. Maybe the ideal body would be something like a giant slug covered in cognitive slime that can interface with our mechoskeletons. Even reproductive organs should involve some sort of external interface to be practical.
you mean Chloe O'Brian did it while you were electrocuting president logan's nipples with a busted lamp
Woz is an INTP, Jobs is an ENTP
It's a powerful alliance
if your "limiting reagent"
aka your "bottleneck"
but the amount of stuff running in the backgrownd is growing exponentially
No it's not growing exponentially. Not everything that is growing is growing exponentially. Are the background processes themselves creating new background processes that will in turn create more background processes??? The amount of people using the word "exponentially" as hyperbole is growing exponentially!
Like seti or folding@home except instead of donating your spare cpu cycles for one particular task you'd be making them available for anyone to rent?
The price per hour per cpu could be based on demand and could be distributed to all the contributers. Imagine all the processing power out there not being used. Especially the gpus on people's video cards while they're not playing games.
MSSQL's SQL optimizer is *so* much better than Oracle's... ..so long as your table statistics are current. Once a table gets to a size where updating the statistics takes longer than the suboptimal execution plan would've, you're screwed. You have to start working around your own schema, partitioning tables and breaking relationships etc.
That or write your queries the long way with force plan, forced joins and indexes. I've found some cases though where you can't reproduce the execution plan this way.
and might even be able to handle 1080i, although 1080p should be out of it's league...
1080i and 1080p are equivalent in terms of computing requirements. 1080i is half the frame size but double the frames. 1080p is double the frame size but half the frames. If anything 1080i becomes more compute intensive when you try to de-interlace it and reconstruct full res frames.
Think of CISC as a kind of compression with hints and other info. The translation is performed in less time than would take to send the full uncompressed instructions so eliminating it would actually slow performance.
Actually the main purpose for membership cards is to enable "in basket" analysis. Knowing what's being purchased is trivial, figuring out what's being purchased together requires a unique identifier to associate with the multiple items. Membership cards provide that for cash paying customers.
The reasoning behind any such default options is very simple and straight forward.
The user does not directly or immediatly benefit from enabling google to track their activity. You would never go look for the "track my activity" option and enable it. If google disabled this by default who would ever turn it on?
After all the statistics are of much less value if they are based on a sample of users who actually realize that providing google with these statistics is good for the software (and not too lazy to go manually enable the option).
I read the linked article. In summary, the japanese are incredibly racist.
I think his point was that poor people also tend to be stupid.
A good client has tabs (Nobody wants a dozen chat windows).
I have to disagree. I prefer separate windows per convo. I wouldn't be suprised if no two people have the same ideal of what the perfect chat client would be. That's why I think the most important thing for a chat client is that it is extremely configurable. Miranda, is hands down the most configurable client and IMO the best.
Nods for miranda
Miranda is a very good program. Just about every aspect of the interface is configurable. I think that is very important in a chat client since it is almost always running and everybody has their own preferences.